Obernzenn blue castle

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The blue castle
Red and blue castle

The Blue Castle is a castle in Obernzenn in the Middle Franconian district of Neustadt an der Aisch-Bad Windsheim .

history

Already in the Middle Ages there was a fortified structure at the site of the castle, which was surrounded by a moat. The Barons von Seckendorff -Gutend used the foundations of the previous building to build the Red Palace next to the Blue Palace in 1745 .

The von Seckendorff-Aberdar family began building the Blue Palace as early as 1696. A second construction phase followed in the years 1711 to 1718, a third from 1756 to 1758: In 1696, the Ansbach chamberlain Christoph Sigmund von Seckendorff-Aberdar received the old castle of the Aberdar family and began building what is now the north wing of the Blue Castle. The second construction phase goes back to his son Philipp Albrecht, who was also a chamberlain in Ansbach. He probably asked the court architect Gabriel de Gabrieli to plan the east wing . Christoph Ludwig von Seckendorff-Aberdar, Christoph Sigmund's grandson, had the west wing built. He was Prime Minister and Privy Council President and in this function the most important advisor to Margrave Carl Wilhelm Friedrich von Brandenburg-Ansbach . The building was adorned in 1759 with an alliance coat of arms of the Seckendorff and Cronfeld families, created by the sculptor Philipp Hochstein from Ansbach.

The gardens were planned by Christoph Ludwig von Seckendorff-Aberdar and Franz Felix Schack . Possibly the designs were based on the ideas of the court building director Leopoldo Retty . In 1742 the moat was spanned by an oak bridge with a cast iron railing.

The two late baroque castles in Obernzenn are named after the predominant color tones of their facade design.

The east wing of the Blue Castle can be visited on guided tours. It contains a picture room with family portraits from the 17th and 18th centuries and various representation rooms that are decorated with stucco. In a museum workshop, projects with topics related to absolutism are offered.

  • View from the garden side

  • Coat of arms jewelry

  • Bridge over the moat

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.freundetriesdorf.de/obernzenn.html

Coordinates: 49 ° 27 ′ 1.8 ″  N , 10 ° 27 ′ 50.8 ″  E